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Yvetta has received several grants and awards for play writing, directing and
performing from the Toronto Arts Council and received a writer’s award from
Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada. In Bulgaria she’s received awards for
best directing, best set design and costumes, unique theatre form and best
children show.
Yvetta’s personal interest in healing has led her to
study and practice pranic healing in 1996-1997, followed by other forms of
alternative healing, art therapies and counseling. Her special interest in Hawaiian
healing and spirituality brought her to the islands of Hawai’i on several
occasions and led her to become a student of this ancient knowledge. The last
few years she has been working on a therapeutic film and a documentary about
traditional Hawaiian healing and spirituality; painting mandalas and
collaborating with Nature on creating digital photography mandalas.
Yvetta also
has
produced and directed a 30 minute
digital video called “Wicked . . . The Ghost And Magic”
with eight children who uninhibitedly expressed their thoughts and feelings
about the educational system. Under Yvett's guidance they wrote the screenplay,
did the casting and designed their costumes. The film was conceived, rehearsed
and shot within a 5 day period - as a summer camp project - with the intention
to show children's immense hidden potential for thinking, emotional expression, creativity
and to help them voice their point of view.
Yvetta is doing
spiritual and therapeutic art counseling as a private practice and in a form of
workshops.
She is working with adults and children to help them connect with their talents, with their souls and
the spirit.
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